* Get rid of recursive `make` when building the node binary. An earlier
commit makes GYP write out rules that we can use for proper dependency
tracking.
* Use module name 'binding' in addons.md and addons-napi/*/binding.gyp.
This massively simplifies the logic for generating the build rules.
* Check in auto-generated add-on tests from `doc/api/addons.md`. The
files change rarely and generating them dynamically causes no end of
race conditions and special-casing during the build.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17407
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
n-api uses size_t for the size of strings when specifying
string lengths. V8 only supports a size of int. Add
a check so that an error will be returned if the user
passes in a string with a size larger than will fit into
an int.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15611
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
This API doesn't serve much purpose, and is only likely to cause
confusion and bugs. The intention was that this would return the
number of characters in a string independent of encoding, but
that's not generally useful. In almost all cases, one of the
encoding-specific napi_get_value_string_* APIs is more correct.
(Pass a null buffer if only the encoded length is desired.)
Anyway the current implementation of napi_get_value_string_length()
is technically wrong: it returns the number of 2-byte code units of
the UTF-16 encoding, but there are actually some characters that
are encoded as two UTF-16 code units.
Note the JavaScript String.prototype.length property returns the
number of UTF-16 code units, which may be different from the number
of characters. So, getting the true character count is not common
with JavaScript, and is probably best left to specialized
internationalization libraries.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12496
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/issues/226
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12368
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jason Ginchereau <jasongin@microsoft.com>
Add support for abi stable module API (N-API) as "Experimental feature".
The goal of this API is to provide a stable Node API for native
module developers. N-API aims to provide ABI compatibility guarantees
across different Node versions and also across different
Node VMs - allowing N-API enabled native modules to just work
across different versions and flavors of Node.js without recompilation.
A more detailed introduction is provided in:
https://github.com/nodejs/node-eps/blob/master/005-ABI-Stable-Module-API.md
and https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/blob/doc/VM%20Summit.pdf.
The feature, during its experimental state, will be guarded by a runtime
flag "--napi-modules". Only when this flag is added to the command line
will N-API modules along with regular non N-API modules be supported.
The API is defined by the methods in "src/node_api.h" and
"src/node_api_types.h". This is the best
starting point to review the API surface. More documentation will follow.
In addition to the implementation of the API using V8, which is included
in this PR, the API has also been validated against chakracore and that
port is available in
https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/tree/api-prototype-chakracore-8.x.
The current plan is to provide N-API support in versions 8.X and 6.X
directly. For older versions, such as 4.X or pre N-API versions of 6.X,
we plan to create an external npm module to provide a migration path
that will allow modules targeting older Node.js versions to use the API,
albeit without getting the advantage of not having to recompile.
In addition, we also plan an external npm package with C++ sugar to
simplify the use of the API. The sugar will be in-line only and will
only use the exported N-API methods but is not part of the N-API
itself. The current version is in:
https://github.com/nodejs/node-api.
This PR is a result of work in the abi-stable-node repo:
https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/tree/doc,
with this PR being the cumulative work on the api-prototype-8.x
branch with the following contributors in alphabetical order:
Author: Arunesh Chandra <arunesh.chandra@microsoft.com>
Author: Gabriel Schulhof <gabriel.schulhof@intel.com>
Author: Hitesh Kanwathirtha <hiteshk@microsoft.com>
Author: Ian Halliday <ianhall@microsoft.com>
Author: Jason Ginchereau <jasongin@microsoft.com>
Author: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Author: Sampson Gao <sampsong@ca.ibm.com>
Author: Taylor Woll <taylor.woll@microsoft.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11975
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
